"La Moisson" (The Harvester)
Designer Raoul Dufy French
Manufacturer Atuyer, Bianchini et Férier French
Not on view
The artist Dufy met the couturier Paul Poiret in 1911. With Poiret’s encouragement and financial backing, Dufy created a series of bold monochromatic textiles, hand block-printed in a manner suggestive of both eighteenth-century toiles de jouy and the abstract geometries of modern painting. Poiret used these principally, but not exclusively, for clothing; they soon attracted the attention of the commercial manufacturer Atuyer, Bianchini et Férier, who, much to Poiret’s chagrin, subsequently co-opted their production.
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